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The mission of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is to inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History integrates the three strands of its organizational identity - as museum of natural history, nature education center, and steward of conservation land.
As a small museum of natural history, we will preserve, exhibit, and interpret our own collections of natural history artifacts and display relevant traveling and loan exhibits. We may also collaborate with local and regional organizations on co-sponsored exhibits.
As a nature education center, we will engage children and adults in high-quality programs, classes, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, films, walks, field trips, traditions and interactive exhibits that reveal the many facets of the natural world and the reciprocal impacts that humans and nature exert on each other. As befits a nature education center, we will explore our potential as a center for citizen scientists and amateur naturalists, and as a forum for informed discussion of important issues related to the natural world, especially on Cape Cod.
As a steward of 400-plus acres of museum-owned land in Stony Brook Valley and Brewster conservation land adjacent to the museum, including Wing's Island, the salt marsh, and the beach along Cape Cod Bay between Quivett and Paine's Creeks, we will monitor and protect the land and focus our programming on its varied habitats - our outdoor classroom and teaching tool. Programs may also take place elsewhere on Cape Cod and in New England when appropriate.

About Cape Cod Museum of Natural History

The mission of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is to inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History integrates the three strands of its organizational identity - as museum of natural history, nature education center, and steward of conservation land.
As a small museum of natural history, we will preserve, exhibit, and interpret our own collections of natural history artifacts and display relevant traveling and loan exhibits. We may also collaborate with local and regional organizations on co-sponsored exhibits.
As a nature education center, we will engage children and adults in high-quality programs, classes, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, films, walks, field trips, traditions and interactive exhibits that reveal the many facets of the natural world and the reciprocal impacts that humans and nature exert on each other. As befits a nature education center, we will explore our potential as a center for citizen scientists and amateur naturalists, and as a forum for informed discussion of important issues related to the natural world, especially on Cape Cod.
As a steward of 400-plus acres of museum-owned land in Stony Brook Valley and Brewster conservation land adjacent to the museum, including Wing's Island, the salt marsh, and the beach along Cape Cod Bay between Quivett and Paine's Creeks, we will monitor and protect the land and focus our programming on its varied habitats - our outdoor classroom and teaching tool. Programs may also take place elsewhere on Cape Cod and in New England when appropriate.

Don't let the smallish building (or high admission cost) stop you from going to this museum. It is only open 4 hours this time of year, and we could have easily been there the whole time. The bird and aquarium exhibits are clearly labeled. There...More

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offering books like Birdtalk, whose author I heard speak here, introduced by NOVA kayaker and explorer Richard Wheeler. In the next month, many returnee birds on their way North. Fun, and fairly long, boardwalk over the marsh to the island.

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We passed by so many times and the only reason that I decided to stop was to find out about the osprey nest at the back of the marsh. What a wonderful surprise to see the great trail at the back! The osprey nest was...More

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Ideal for kids age 5 and over who can eagerly keep up on the boardwalk “adventure walk” to the beach from the main entrance. Plus great “natural history” displays in the main entrance area. Absolutely worth a family visit. Or “couples” visits.

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We really enjoyed our visit to this place. Exhibits are well designed and explained. Of special interest to us was the museum's focus on biomimicry, which opened our eyes to how humans can learn, and have learned, from nature's creatures to develop products and techniques...More

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A great place to bring the family including the kids. Mud flat mania is a delight and the exhibits throughout are set up for easy viewing. Ample parking. Come prepared to spend a few hours strolling the building and grounds.

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We enjoyed our visit to the museum. There are displays of different animals that are native to Cape Cod. The honeybee display was awesome. You can see turtles, snakes, frogs, fish, sea horses, and jellyfish. We were there when they were feeding the fish, which...More

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Hello, please know there are no dogs allowed on the grounds of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History or on Wing Island Trail, a great disappointment to us after years of enjoying it. You may read more in my review, "We... More

Hello, please know there are no dogs allowed on the grounds of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History or on Wing Island Trail, a great disappointment to us after years of enjoying it. You may read more in my review, "We Love Wing Island Trail".

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